Interview with Assata Richards

Continuing on in District D we have a conversation with Assata Richards. A single mother at the age of 17, Richards graduated high school and with the help of the Houston Urban League’s Education Department and the Young Mothers Residential Program (YMRP) at Project Row Houses, she earned a degree at UH and subsequently completed a PhD at Penn State. An adjunct professor of sociology at UH, Richards is the Program Manager of the Young Mothers Residential Program at Project Row Houses, the Vice Chair of the Board of Commissioners for the Houston Housing Authority, and the founding Director of the Sankofa Research Institute. Here’s the interview: